...6. Ben invented so much cool stuff.

Of course, you probably know that he is responsible for the lightning
rod, bifocal glasses and the Franklin stove. But in 1761, Franklin also
invented the glass harmonica (or "armonica," as Ben called it). It
became quite popular during Franklin’s time and armonica-specific pieces
were composed by the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, and Handel.
More of Franklin’s inventions include:
• The library stepstool, a chair whose seat could be lifted and folded down to make a short ladder.
• A mechanical arm for reaching books on high shelves. (Book retrieval – clearly a focus of Franklinian innovation)
• The rocking chair – a chair that rocks.
• The writing chair - a chair with an arm on one side to provide a
writing surface. (Activities one can do while seated – also a focus.)
• The odometer - used in Franklin’s time to measure distance along colonial roads used by the postal service.
• A pulley system that enabled him to lock and unlock his bedroom door from his bed.
• The flexible urinary catheter....

...10. He Could Really Talk About Drinking

On January 6, 1737, Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette published
200+ synonyms for the word “drunk” in what was entitled “The Drinkers
Dictionary.” The handy list came accompanied by a note from Franklin
himself: “The Phrases in this Dictionary are not (like most of our Terms
of Art) borrow'd from Foreign Languages, neither are they collected
from the Writings of the Learned in our own, but gather'd wholly from
the modern Tavern-Conversation of Tiplers. I do not doubt but that there
are many more in use; and I was even tempted to add a new one my self
under the Letter B, to wit, Brutify'd…”

First, a note from Mr. Franklin: "The Phrases in
this Dictionary are not (like most of our Terms of Art) borrow'd from
Foreign Languages, neither are they collected from the Writings of the
Learned in our own, but gather'd wholly from the modern
Tavern-Conversation of Tiplers. I do not doubt but that there are many
more in use; and I was even tempted to add a new one my self under the
Letter B, to wit, Brutify'd: But upon Consideration, I fear'd being
guilty of Injustice to the Brute Creation, if I represented Drunkenness
as a beastly Vice, since, 'tis well-known, that the Brutes are in
general a very sober sort of People."
A
He is Addled,
He's casting up his Accounts,
He's Afflicted,
He's in his Airs.
B
He's Biggy,
Bewitch'd,
Block and Block,
Boozy,
Bowz'd,
Been at Barbadoes,
Piss'd in the Brook,
Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow,
Burdock'd,
Buskey,
Buzzey,